Why don’t we clean up after ourselves?
Indians are dazed at Japan’s football fans tidying the stadium before leaving. This kind of civic sense comes from learning from childhood that public spaces are a shared responsibility, not someone else’s headache
A heartbreaking 1-2 defeat to Brazil in Houston, brought Japan’s World Cup journey to an end. But what did the Japanese fans do afterwards?
They tidied up the stadium.
This has actually become a familiar sight by now. Once civic sense is embedded in a people’s DNA, it remains with them through the lifecycle and reflects itself in every corner of the world.
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